April- May 2009 Update

Song of Solomon 1:2, Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For you love is better then wine. April found us very busy with getting to used to a new addition to the family and Brian teaching the Marriage conference this year. The focus was on understanding your spouse and we used the dialogue between Solomon and his bride to look at what God desires for our marriages. Specifically looking at the differences that men and women have and understanding that they are not for conflict but to complement each other. We adjusted the conference this year to the weekend to allow more people to attend and we greatly blessed with the turnout for the weekend. One of the highlights was a couple, that attends our church who received the Lord late in their lives, Not all of the children are walking with the Lord and its been a particular difficult for them to deal with. Their son Paul and his fiancee have had many discussions with them about why they left the Orthodox religion. They try to explain to them why they left but in general he doesn't understand and gets upset. We have been praying that he and his fiancee would come to the Lord. With them moving to Cluj a city 2 hours away for work it was going to be really hard to talk to them about the Lord. But Paul called his mom and wanted to come to the marriage conference and they came both days driving the whole distance. Totally surprised his parents and really enjoyed the entire conference. I was speaking with his mom the other day and they are now listening to a Christian radio station because it makes them feel peaceful. Paul's finacee even informed Paul's mom that she is reading her bible also. Keep praying for this couple, that they would come to know Jesus personally. 2 days later after the conference Brian took a van full of young people 7 hours to a conference in the south of the country where he was teaching. The Topic was on Grace, and there was people from all the Calvary Chapel's in Romania attending. All of the teaching was really good and it was a great blessing to be able to have our church participate in the conference.

Prayer requests:

Please pray for our church to strive for a deeper relationship with Jesus

Prayer for the leadership to be unified and Love each other.

Prayer for the upcoming travel for the team here and the teams that are coming from the states.

Pray also for Raluka and Ioana. Both of these ladies are going through some very difficult times in their relationships. Brian was able to share with them and pray with them. Pray that the Lord would give them wisdom on how to deal with their situations.